Register of the Treasury
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. In 1919, the Register became the Public Debt Service which, in 1940, became the Bureau of the Public Debt.
The signature of the Register of the Treasury was found on almost all United States currency until 1923, along with that of the Treasurer of the United States. Four of the five African Americans whose signatures have appeared on U.S. currency were Registrars of the Treasury (Blanche K. Bruce, Judson W. Lyons, William T. Vernon and James C. Napier).[1][2][3]
Registers of the Treasury
The Treasury had eighteen Registers between 1861 to 1933.[4]
Name | Dates served | Name | Dates served | ||||
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Lucius E. Chittenden | April 17, 1861 | to | August 10, 1864 | Judson Whitlocke Lyons | April 7, 1898 | to | April 1, 1906 |
S. B. Colby | August 11, 1864 | to | September 21, 1867 | William Tecumseh Vernon | June 11, 1906 | to | March 14, 1911 |
Noah L. Jeffries | October 5, 1867 | to | March 15, 1869 | James Carroll Napier | March 15, 1911 | to | September 30, 1913 |
John Allison | April 3, 1869 | to | March 23, 1878 | Gabe E. Parker | October 1, 1913 | to | December 31, 1914 |
Glenni William Scofield | April 1, 1878 | to | May 20, 1881 | Houston Benge Teehee | March 24, 1915 | to | November 20, 1919 |
Blanche Kelso Bruce | May 21, 1881 | to | June 5, 1885 | William S. Elliott | November 21, 1919 | to | January 24, 1922 |
William Starke Rosecrans | June 8, 1885 | to | June 19, 1893 | Harley V. Speelman | January 25, 1922 | to | September 30, 1927 |
James Fount Tillman | July 1, 1893 | to | December 2, 1897 | Walter Orr Woods | October 1, 1927 | to | January 17, 1929 |
Blanche Kelso Bruce | December 3, 1897 | to | March 17, 1898 | Edward E. Jones | January 22, 1929 | to | May 31, 1933 |
References
- ↑ Turkel, Stanley (2005). Heroes of the American Reconstruction: Profiles of Sixteen Educators, Politicians and Activists. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 6. ISBN 0-7864-1943-1.
Senator Bruce was also the first black man to preside over the Senate and the first whose signature appeared on all the nation's paper currency (as Register of the Treasury starting on May 18, 1881)
- ↑ Holden, Henry M. (2006). To Be a U.S. Secret Service Agent. St Paul, Minnesota: Zenith Imprint. p. 90. ISBN 0-7603-2293-7.
- ↑ "African Americans on Currency". Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Archived from the original on 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
- ↑ "Registers of the Treasury". USPaperMoney.Info. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
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